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I think this is functionally why the Chrome team hides the version number. They wanted it to be more like a utility, or web app. What version is your version of
by vessenes 15y ago
I think this is functionally why the Chrome team hides the version number. They wanted it to be more like a utility, or web app. What version is your version of Hacker News running?
In order to get that kind of instant deployment for a distributable executable, you have to really solve distribution down the chain to (especially) the windows desktop. The Chrome guys did that, it rocks, and it works.
Versions probably originally existed to allow marketing teams to sell more. I wouldn't be surprised if FF eventually drops the version number thing and just has a 'stable' and 'exciting' branch type system for their users.
- ultrasaurus 15y agoTrue, I'm vaguely aware that I run Chrome 13 (Stable) and Chrome 14 (Canary) for testing -- but I'm surprisingly vague on that awareness -- in fact I got it wrong (I thought it was 12 that was stable)
- vessenes 15y agoOoh, now I'm jealous. I'm on 12 for Mac. Boo!
- zpao 15y ago> I wouldn't be surprised if FF eventually drops the version number thing and just has a 'stable' and 'exciting' branch type system for their users. That's pretty much what we're going for. The version number is still there, but we're phasing numbers out of the discussion when we talk about Firefox. There's the release channel, the beta channel, and the Aurora channel. There's also the Nightly channel and some projects builds (these sets are targeted at developers). Check out https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ And yes, we were definitely influenced by what Chrome is doing, though we've adjusted to what's going to work better for us.